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Nicolo Tartaglia, an Uncommon card
Nicolo, known as Tartaglia, was an Italian mathematician, engineer, a surveyor and a bookkeeper from the then Republic of Venice.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 68
- DEF
- 54
- Power
- 122
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 18,000
Power 122 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He published many books, including the first Italian translations of Archimedes and Euclid, and an acclaimed compilation of mathematics.
- Tartaglia was the first to apply mathematics to the investigation of the paths of cannonballs, known as ballistics, in his Nova Scientia, his work was later partially validated and partially superseded by Galileo's studies on falling bodies.
- He also published a treatise on retrieving sunken ships.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Nicolo Tartaglia article was read about 18,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 68 and blocks with 54: each hit it takes is cut by 22 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Nicolo Tartaglia (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Rijksmuseum, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.